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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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  [Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

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  I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

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  I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.

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  Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

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  Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

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  I have actual acting scars.

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  I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

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  I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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  I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.

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  I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

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  My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.

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  Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.

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  I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.

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